Commit 7db46535 authored by William A. Rowe Jr's avatar William A. Rowe Jr
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  Document the fact that Cygwin's awk doesn't work with MSVC. This is
  due to Cygwin making awk.exe a 'cygwin symlink' to gawk.exe. The windows
  shell does not support symlinks, and so any Apache makefile references
  to awk.exe will fail.

PR:8726
Submitted by:	Jerry Baker <jerrybaker@weirdness.com>


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        listing Executable file paths.  Add the path for awk.exe to this 

        list, and your system PATH environment variable, as needed.<br />

        <br />

         Also note that if you are using Cygwin (<a href="http://www.cygwin.com/"

         >http://www.cygwin.com/</a>) the awk utility is named gawk.exe and

         that the file awk.exe is really a symlink to the gawk.exe file. The

         Windows command shell does not recognize symlinks, and because of that

         building InstallBin will fail. A workaround is to delete awk.exe from

         the cygwin installation and rename gawk.exe to awk.exe.<br />

         <br />

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